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Richard Hughes

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The work of British sculptor Richard Hughes begins where the lifecycles of most commodities end: in piles of rubbish (“My formative years,” he has said, “were spent in a car park.”). After cruising abandoned trash and street detritus, he typically casts his finds in fiberglass and finally paints the surfaces. Often, the results have a quirky yet deeply expressive anthropomorphism, as if animate life were rising from the urban ruins.

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28 in
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16.9375 in
×
26 in

71.12 cm
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43.02125 cm
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66.04 cm

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Image credits: Courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery

Richard Hughes
Painted fiberglass
Anton Kern Gallery
2010s

The work of British sculptor Richard Hughes begins where the lifecycles of most commodities end: in piles of rubbish (“My formative years,” he has said, “were spent in a car park.”). After cruising abandoned trash and street detritus, he typically casts his finds in fiberglass and finally paints the surfaces. Often, the results have a quirky yet deeply expressive anthropomorphism, as if animate life were rising from the urban ruins.